Most of web developers or Salesforce Lightning Component developers are working on JavaScript. If they run into any issue and in need of debugging mechanism then Console.log is always there to rescue. Imagine your application has many debug statements and some of them are very important for problem solving, wouldn’t it be nice, if those statements can stand out from others ?

Recently, I noticed something amazing in Facebook console when I pressed “Ctrl+Shift+J” (Developer tools) as shown in below image.

You may find many ways to upload attachments in Salesforce using visualforce however most of them uses some Javascript libraries (means either you need to depend on static resources or add CDN in remote site settings) or they do not have progress bar or they are not drag and drop. I thought to create one simple Visualforce component which can show progress bar and have drag and drop capabilities.

Initially i gave though to use visualforce remoting however challenge was how to show progress bar and same challenge was with custom controller or extension also. So, i decided to create one simple Apex REST API to upload attachment.

In this article we will see how to use Camera and Audio recorder of mobile device in Visualforce and upload as chatter file. It may look that it is very tricky to access device camera and audio control in Visualforce however you may be right if there were no HTML5. Thanks to HTML5 for magic.

We have already discussed “Basics of AngularJS” and “Simple Searching and Sorting“. In this article, we will add Pagination feature also to our previous example. What makes difficult is Sorting result when values are returned from Search and pagination is enabled. Unlike previous post we cannot use standard “OrderBy” filter provided by AngularJs framework, this time we have to create Javascript function inside Controller for Sorting purpose.

Dependency injection is a software design pattern that allows the removal of hard-coded dependencies and makes it possible to change them, whether at run-time or compile-time.

Before going to DI first we have to know about Service.

What is Service , factory or Provider in AngularJs?

They all are same, with different way of writing. This (Singleton design pattern) defines dependency between your controller and View through application.
We can Inject a service in Controller, which will watch over changes automatically and change its View as per required.

One of many features of HTML5 is capability to store data on client machine with the help of “Indexed Database API“. Using this technique web developers can add offline capabilities to their application. Currently almost every modern browser supports “IndexedDB”.

Unlike traditional RDBMS, IndexedDB doesn’t have table or columns which supports SQL. In RDBMS, it is very hard to change structure of table once schema is decided. IndexedDB actually stores object which can be of any type. Store Object in IndexedDB and process inside Javascript, it is that simple. Every object needs to have unique Index which makes it accessing faster and efficient. Before IndexedDB, we had “Web SQL Database“. However W3C announced that it is depreciated, still few browsers continues support for Web SQL.

Lets start with Example on Indexed DB :

Very first step in IndexedDB is opening database. Below Code Sample will explain the process.

AngularJs is most accepted MVC framework in Javascript developed by Google. In my point of view, If its developed by Google then there must be something new and unique about this library. It can be used to provide MVC architect to your web application. It has great developers community, so if you are stucked somewhere while using this library, you will have tons of supporters.

So what is so special about this framework, other than its developed by Google ?

Unlike Backbone and Ember, You don’t have to spend time on Event Handling (Bind, UnBind Events etc).

Recently, I ran into requirement where I was getting JSON response and needed to render it on my Mobile application. I had two Options, Server side processing and Client side Templating. I studied and checked both way ; came to conclusion on using Client side Templating. There are many plugins and libraries available however there is one which stands different, easy to use and faster as compared to others which is “Underscore.js“.

Underscore.js library needs JQuery as prerequisite. You can find complete documentation here, Only remember following three points :